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Новости за 20.12.2024

Drugs like Ozempic now make up 5% of prescriptions in the US

Technology Review  

US doctors write billions of prescriptions each year. During 2024, though, one type of drug stood out—“wonder drugs” known as GLP-1 agonists. As of September, one of every 20 prescriptions written for adults was for one of these drugs, according to the health data company Truveta. The drugs, which include Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Victoza, are…

Ralph Raico: A Great Historian

Ludwig von Mises Institute 

In his Friday Philosophy column, David Gordon celebrates the legacy of Ralph Raico, a revisionist historian who wrote and spoke eloquently of the folly of America‘s wars. Today, we look at his 1983 speech at the Cato Foundation that covered World Wars I and II.

Have a good weekend

Sciencebase.com 

This was a busy week, but I think I got most of what I needed to do done. I hope that you had a sufficiently accomplished week, and I hope you have a wonderful weekend. See you on Monday! 

The 10 Best Places to Travel in 2025

VOGUE.com 

Looking for the best places to travel in 2025? From Siwa, Egypt, to Germany’s Black Forest, here are the places on Vogue’s itinerary.

3 Spring 2025 Shoe Trends to Know and Shop Now

VOGUE.com 

Stay ahead of next season with Vogue’s guide to the spring/summer 2025 shoe trends. Shop straight-from-the-runway styles and more shoes inspired by the shows.

One State’s War on Forever Chemicals in Milk

The New Republic 

In late December 2022, a rancher in Johnson County, Texas, called the constable’s office to complain about his neighbor. The neighbor had recently spread a kind of waste-derived fertilizer, known as biosolids, over his land, the caller said, and the piles were smoking. The caller and his wife were struggling to breathe, the fish in his pond had died, and he thought the biosolids were making him, his wife, and their animals sick.

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The Democrats Have a Crime Problem. Blame the Media.

The New Republic 

In Democrats’ seemingly endless election postmortems—and in the postmortems on the postmortems—a persistent theme has been to blame the reddening of blue states like New York and New Jersey on crime in their big cities. On Pod Save America, the political commentator Ezra Klein emphasized the importance of taking crime seriously as a factor in voters’ decisions. To explain why he wasn’t surprised by blue states’ “sharp red shift,” he said: “Because if you just talk to anybody who lives in them, they are furious. Читать дальше...

The Brutalist Pairs Modern Architecture and Postwar Trauma

The New Republic 

Lady Liberty turned on her head is the sort of image one might expect a surly teenager with artistic aspirations to produce after reading The Great Gatsby or Howard Zinn, and it is the first image that the viewer of Brady Corbet’s third feature, The Brutalist, sees once the VistaVision logotype, announcement of an overture, and a countdown have flitted across the screen. Such elaborate window dressing is clearly intended to convey the magnificence of classic cinema, but also America, which Hungarian... Читать дальше...